Sentences with phrase «on socioeconomic development»

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Several studies have also attempted to understand the role of breastfeeding on IQ, and although some authors conclude that the observed advantage of breastfeeding on IQ is related only to genetic and socioenvironmental factors, a recent meta - analysis showed that after adjustment for appropriate key co-factors, breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive development than formula feeding.6 Longer duration of breastfeeding has also been positively associated with intelligence in adulthood.22 We also observed the benefits of long - term breastfeeding on mental indices, along with the indirect benefit of balancing the impact of exposure to p, p ′ DDE after adjustment for some socioeconomic variables.

Being breastfed exclusively for at least four months has been shown to have a positive effect on the intellectual development of children even when controlled for the demographic variables, especially socioeconomic status (SES) and education of the mother.14 - 22 The nutrient advantages of human milk coupled with the mother - infant relationship provide the matrix for the child to reach his / her full intellectual potential.

By drawing on the World Bank's projections of socioeconomic development over the next quarter century, researchers at the World Health Organization set out to forecast global trends in death and disease.

For his analyses, he has created and collected many socioeconomic indices for the world, countries and often even provinces like human development, GDP, capital stock, exchange rates, price indices and data on security, building inventory and vulnerability in all countries exposed to disasters.

«The fact the cohorts used to determine this study's conclusions (BMJ published meta analysis) failed to consider incredibly relevant diabetes confounders like family history of diabetes, socioeconomic status, and dietary consumption patterns, including the dietary consumption of other categories of refined grains, makes quantifying the effect on diabetes development due to white rice consumption from this data set impossible.

As late as April and May of their senior year of high school ~ there is a lack of knowledge among students about how they will pay for college There are substantial gender and socioeconomic differences evident in choosing STEM majors Parents and friends are key sources of support for postsecondary transition planning that need to be fully utilized On average ~ students do nt see college and career readiness counseling services as being as frequent or helpful as do their counselors and principals in terms of social and emotional development ~ financial planning ~ college and career planning and scheduling.

Lesaux's research focuses on the reading development and the health and well - being of children who are at risk for learning difficulties, including children from language - minority and low socioeconomic backgrounds, and children with language impairments.

«Meredith Rowe is an expert on language and cognitive development during early childhood, with a focus on the role that parents, socioeconomic status, culture, and experience play in development»

On June 8, the Departments of Education (ED), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Transportation (DOT) held a half - day convening and released a joint Dear Colleague Letter calling for cross-agency collaboration to promote racial and socioeconomic diversity in schools and communities.

An essential part of the joint statement is that it defines a quality education as one that focuses on the whole child — the social, emotional, mental, physical, and cognitive development of each student regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or geographic location.

Based on Partners in Education: A Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family — School Partnerships, a publication of the American Institutes for Research's Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education, this session will help you to build and enhance the capacity of school staff and teachers use equity to engage all families, regardless of their racial or ethnic identity, educational background, gender, disability, or socioeconomic status.

«Mounting evidence shows that schools and neighborhoods extremely segregated by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status can have a negative impact on children and families» long - term development, well - being, and access to services and opportunities,» they write.

The exhibition highlights the political dialogue inherent in the artist's artistic interventions — from his concern for the extreme plight of the homeless, his interest in direct community engagement, his belief that we should expand our lived experience of a city into its underground and other inaccessible spaces, and his commentary on development and socioeconomic stratification.

ERA4CS DustClim (DUST storms assessment for the development of user - oriented CLIMate services in Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe)(2017 - 2020) will provide high - resolution baseline and trend information on sand and dust storms over Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle East, and will develop dust - related climate services tailored to key socioeconomic sectors.

This article is part of the Special Issue on «A Framework for the Development of New Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Research» edited by Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Robert Lempert, and Anthony Janetos.

Climate projections are distinguished from climate predictions in order to emphasize that climate projections depend upon the emission / concentration / radiative forcing scenario used, which are based on assumptions concerning, for example, future socioeconomic and technological developments that may or may not be realised and are therefore subject to substantial uncertainty.

Future climate change impacts will depend on past and future socioeconomic development, which influences emissions of heat - trapping gases, the exposure and vulnerability of society and ecosystems, and societal capacity to respond.

Socioeconomic development, natural climate variations, and human - caused climate change have an influence on climate - and weather - related disaster risk.

Climate projections are distinguished from a href = «c.html #climate - predictions» > climate predictions in order to emphasize that climate projections depend upon the emission / concentration / radiative forcing scenario used, which are based on assumptions concerning, for example, future socioeconomic and technological developments that may or may not be realized and are therefore subject to substantial uncertainty.

Changes in population, age, income, technology, relative prices, lifestyle, regulation, governance, and many other aspects of socioeconomic development will have an impact on the supply and demand of economic goods and services that is large relative to the impact of climate change.

As the late Ghanian energy expert Abeeku Brew - Hammond observed, «There is an emerging consensus, based on the evidence from many energy access interventions around the world, that too narrow a focus on expanding energy delivery without adequate attention to productive uses for income generation yields little by way of socioeconomic development.»

I first published on my work as one of a collection of socioeconomic research papers presented by international researchers, in a World Bank publication in June 2003, entitled «Durban Plus One, Opportunities and Challenges for Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in Development».

• Demonstrated ability to work with children in groups or individually depending on the requirements of children and the subject matter • Able to organize activities so children can learn in relation to the world, explore interests, and build up talents • Highly skilled in planning and carrying out a set of courses that targets diverse areas of child development, including language, math, and social skills • Proven ability to work with children from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds

This then established the relationship between neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) and a number of children's health and developmental outcomes.9 Longitudinal research suggested structural characteristics such as poverty and demography were mediated through community - level social processes that influenced the functioning of families and children.10, 11 Today, however, there is still limited understanding of the modifiable community - level factors likely to benefit outcomes for young children despite socioecological frameworks suggesting there are multiple levels of influence (individual, family, community) on early child development (ECD).12, 13 Investigating these influences is thought best undertaken through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods that can test these multiple influences on ECD.14, 15

Its validity and sensitivity as an indicator of socioenvironmental influences on development have been demonstrated by evidence that it explains significant variance in childhood cognitive functioning over and above that attributable to socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal education.40, 41 Its validity for use with black samples has also been established.42 Because of safety considerations, the HOME was administered in the laboratory.

In the United States, more than 1.5 million children are born to unmarried parents each year.1 Many of these children will grow up in single - parent households, a backdrop that can adversely affect academic performance, emotional development, and long - term socioeconomic outcomes.2 Moreover, without specific legal action on the part of unmarried parents, these children will not share the same rights as children born to married parents.

In M. Barnett (Chair), Influences on social - emotional development in the context of parenting and socioeconomic adversity across early childhood.

Others have also consistently reported that breastfed children score slightly higher than those bottlefed on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development or later tests of IQ, such as the McCarthy Scales, after controlling for standard covariates including socioeconomic status (SES), maternal age and education, maternal smoking and drinking, 16, 17 and in one study maternal psychological state.18 Longitudinal studies indicate that these differences persist to 5 years and into school age.

It specifically examines socioeconomic (SES) differences in skills within a low SES community in order to investigate the role of relative disadvantage on children's development.

While striving for economic development for Indigenous communities is a necessary and worthwhile pursuit, the current NIC Principles and in fact any economic development model, needs to consider the wider socioeconomic issues relating to Indigenous communities on Indigenous communal lands.

After adjusting for the duration and severity of maternal depression, duration of treatment, number of depressive episodes after delivery, maternal IQ and socioeconomic status, the study showed that tricyclic antidepressants and fluoxetine had no adverse effects on the global IQ, language development or behaviour of children between 15 and 71 months of age [60].

Early childhood studies on deaf children like these suggest that the predictors of language development are independent of gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, communication modality, degree of hearing loss, age at identification, and parents» level of education (see Meadow - Orlans et al., 2003, for a review).

This study employs prospective longitudinal data (N = 189) to investigate the effects of foster care on the development of child behavior and psychological functioning taking into account baseline adaptation prior to placement and socioeconomic status at the time of placement.